Users Guide

NOTE: Dell provides the Dell Update Package (DUP) to update drivers on systems running Windows Server 2012/2012 R2

or Window Server 2008/2008 R2 operating systems. DUP is an executable application that updates drivers for specic

devices. DUP supports command line interface and silent execution. For more information, see Dell.com/support.

Installing or updating Linux drivers for Shared PERC 8

Use the procedures in this section to update the driver for supported Red Hat and SUSE Linux distributions. To ensure that you have the

current version of the driver, download the updated Linux driver from Dell.com/support.

NOTE: PERC H310/H710/H710P/H810 controllers use the same driver as Shared PERC 8 and do not require separate driver

installations.

Installing or updating the driver package on RHEL using KMOD

support

NOTE: This procedure is applicable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SP5, 6.6, 6.7 and 7.1.

Perform the following steps to install the RPM package with KMOD support:

1 Uncompress the zipped tarball driver release package using the command tar vxzf <driver name>.

2 Install the driver package using the command rpm –ihv kmod-megaraid_ sas-<version>.x86_64.rpm.

NOTE

: Use rpm -Uvh <package name> when upgrading an existing package.

3 Reboot the system for the updated driver to take eect.

4 Verify that the driver has been loaded using the command modinfo megaraid_sas.

5 View the list of controllers installed on your system using the command lspci | grep IOV.

Installing or updating the driver package on SLES using KMP

support

NOTE

: This procedure is applicable for SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 SP3, 12 and 13.

Perform the following steps to install the RPM package with KMP support:

1 Uncompress the zipped tarball driver release package using the command tar vxzf <driver name>.

2 Install the driver package using the command rpm –ihv lsi-megaraid_ sas-<version>.x86_64.rpm.

NOTE

: Use rpm -Uvh <package name> when updating an existing package.

3 Reboot the system for the updated driver to take eect.

4 Verify that the driver is loaded using the command modinfo megaraid_sas.

5 View the list of controllers installed on your system using the command lspci | grep IOV.

Firmware and driver installation